Persian Gulf: Two Down for Nasser

In the sweltering reaches of the
petroleous Persian Gulf, where Britain maintains some of the last
outposts of Empire, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser has waged a long, hot
campaign of intrigue and propaganda to get the "imperialists" outand
himself in. Last week the British inflicted two significant defeats on
their foe.

The first setback for Nasser came in Bahrein, a tiny cluster of Persian
Gulf islands where Sheik Isa bin Sulman al Khalifa unconditionally
reaffirmed all existing agreements under which Whitehall uses his
prosperous kingdom as a military and diplomatic pied-a-terre.
Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for
Bahreinis, who...